I just upgraded my 4-user multiseat system to Fedora Core 6 from FC4+X.org 6.9. The installation went fairly smoothly (though Anaconda fought with my [admittedly odd] RAID configuration and wanted to install the Grub bootloader code on /dev/md1; I switched to vt2 and used the Grub shell to set things right before rebooting).

One thing I wanted to try was AIGLX/Composite/Compiz. I thought that the OpenGL drivers for the cards might get tangled up, but that is not the case -- it actually works well, but the performance hit is heavy. It looks like a dual-core system and/or the upcoming AIGLX optimizations will be necessary to make it really usable.

It's also worth noting that X.org 7.1 seems to work better than 6.9 for multiseat operation; for example, the Zap key combination (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) works fine on all seats. The old xorg.conf file needed only minor editing to take into account path and module changes and to add the Nvidia closed-source driver's AddARGBGLXVisuals option.

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About Chris Tyler

I am a Christian, college professor, computer programmer, system administrator, author, and consultant. My specialty is open source, particularly Fedora Linux.

These are my first two books: X Power Tools, a thorough guide to the X Window System (O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596101954) and Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distro, a practical hands-on book on Fedora (O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596526825).

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